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Hawaiʻi Supreme Court vacates 1990 rape conviction; justice’s opinion rebukes U.S. Supreme Court jurisprudence
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The Hawaiʻi Supreme Court, in an opinion issued Wednesday and authored by Associate Justice Todd Eddins, vacated Daniel R. Granillo’s 1990 Maui sexual-assault-related convictions after finding that now-discredited FBI hair-and-fiber testimony helped underpin the verdict.